MABCR Foster Team Memebers needed

With the economy in the tank and people losing their jobs and their homes, MABCR is more in need than ever. Sadly, the dog is the first thing to go when people are in a panic. I estimate that the requests for intake have doubled in the past few months and increasingly the reasons have little to do with training issues and more to do with an inability to care for the dog for housing or financial reasons.

Because of this, MABCR is in great need of quality foster homes. Being a foster for a dog is the most wonderful part of rescue as the foster is the last step that dog takes before it walks into his forever home. A foster home is a temporary way station for a dog, the place where he learns what real love is and how to be a great dog in his new and permanent home. Fostering makes our dogs more adoptable, and fostering helps dogs to get into their new homes faster.

If you have room in your heart to love another dog on a short term basis, please consider fostering a dog for MABCR. The dog that you foster will be loosely matched to your home and your abilities so you will not be overwhelmed with a dog you cannot handle. The dog you foster will come to you fully vetted, and if you choose, we send along food as well. Dogs stay in foster from a few weeks to a few months, and you become an integral part in the success of that dog’s placement into a new and permanent home.

Please contact me privately if you would like to become part of the MABCR Foster Team.

Thanks.

Sarah

Sarah Ruckelshaus
Executive Director
Mid-Atlantic Border Collie Rescue
slr@mabcr.org
www.mabcr.org
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